SUPPLEMENTARY REVISIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



(Kiik. represents Kiikenthal; IK-si and IK-S2, the first and second 

 supplements of the Index Kewensis. The accepted names in this list are 

 italicised.) 



Page 203. Deschampsia tenella, Philippi (1899; nomen mutandum, 

 because of D. tenella, Petrie, 1890, a New Zealand grass). We may call 

 it D.philippii (Phil.). 



Page 204. Trisetum antarcticum Trin. is Avena subspicata (Beauv. sub 

 Trisetum). 



Page 234. Festuca bromoides Lin. becomes Viilpia bromoides (Linn.), 

 fide IK-S2. Vulpia Gmelin, as a genus, differs from Festuca by having 

 secund narrow and dense panicles, and the empty glumes very unequal. 



Page 278. Carex atropicta Steud. (1855) is identical with C. lechleri 

 (Phil. 1857) ; and has priority. 



Page 278. Carex banksii Boott and (page 288), C. trifida franchetii 

 Kurtz are identical with C. germana Boott (fide Kiik.). C. banksii Boott 

 must be the name as it comes earlier than C. germana in Flora Antarct., 

 page 365. It is also figured in plate cxlii of that work. 



Page 280. Carex decidiia Boott (1845) includes the later C. pedicellata 

 Phil. 



Page 281. Carex filiformis L. subsp. amatorkyncka Desv. (in Gay's 

 Fl. Ch.) is C. campyloxys Steud. (1855). 



Page 282. Carex gay ana Desv. (in Gay's Fl. Ch.) includes C. schedo- 

 nautos Steud. 



Page 285. Carex pedicellata Phil, is a synonym of C. decidua Boott 



(i845)- 



Page 285. Carex propinqua N. & M. is a synonym of C. leporina Linn. 



Page 288. Carex iirolepis Franch. is a variety of C. darwinii Boott. 

 This form, once found only in Patagonia, is now discovered in New Zea- 

 land. (L. Cockayne.) 



Page 306. Tristagma nivalis Poepp. should be Brodicea nivalis 

 (Poepp.), fide IK-S2. 



Page 318. Symphyostemon biflorus Dus. is S. odoratissimus (Lindl.) 

 Miers, fide IK-S2. 



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